I am writing to complain about the extremely bad scholarship, bordering
on fraud, shown in a book by a member of the Harvard faculty. The book
is The Environmental Protection Agency: Asking The Wrong Questions,
by Professor Marc Roberts of the Harvard Public Health School and two others.
Professor Roberts and his colleagues, have shown negligent indifference
for the normal standards of checking facts. If Professor Roberts has received
any credit for this book as a work of scholarship from Harvard University,
then the University has indeed been defrauded.

I have intimate first hand knowledge of the events written about in
chapter four. The authors have cited me several times, mentioned me several
more times (in most derogatory terms) as being an important actor in the
events covered, yet they never interviewed me or attempted to obtain my
views.

Many of the most important "facts" on which they build their case are
outright wrong and can easily be demonstrated to be wrong. I have documented
this in the attached review of chapter four.

Particularly offensive is the allegation that I fought against the weakening
of environmental protection regulations in order to protect myself from
being fired, when in fact I chose to sacrifice, what had been up to that
time, an outstanding government career, in order to try to protect the
public from a politically motivated "hatchet job" on the hazardous waste
regulations.

I hope, after reviewing the attached comments, you will see to it that
Professor Roberts is suitably admonished.